Atlas I launched NOAA's GOES-K weather satellite, later renamed GOES-10, into geostationary transfer orbit from Cape Canaveral. It was the final flight of the Atlas I configuration after 30 consecutive successful Atlas launches.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.1 T
- Flight
- 11th
- of 11 Atlas I flights
- Date and time
- 25 April 1997, 05:49 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas I
- Builder
- GD
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1997-019
- Launches in 1997
- 20th of 89
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